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Her anger faded she was near bursting in tears. In a little while she had taken the good man's arm which Eulalie pointedly informed her was not the fashion at Kingcombe and was walking with him to meet her husband. Marmaduke talked but little; marching on leisurely in a meditative mood, and leaving his young sister-in-law to follow his example.
Oh, yes, she must have been dreaming, she felt certain she was lying on her own little white bed at home, asleep; she would by-and-by open her eyes and get up and look through her little latticed window, and see the sun sparkling on the water, and the Eulalie at the anchor in the Fjord and her father would ask Sir Philip and his friends to spend the afternoon at the farm-house and Philip would come and stroll with her through the garden and down to the shore, and would talk to her in that low, caressing voice of his, and though she loved him dearly, she must never, never let him know of it, because she was not worthy! . . . She woke from these musings with a violent start and a sick shiver running through all her frame, and looking wildly about her, saw that she was reclining on some one's shoulder, some one was dabbing a wet handkerchief on her forehead her hat was off and her cloak was loosened.
I hear that at Christmas we shall have another marriage in the family. Edward Thorpe has got the living the richest one." "So, of course, Eulalie will marry him." The deduction reached Agatha as rather sarcastic, though perhaps more through the interpretation of her own feeling than that of the speaker. She asked, with one of her usual plain speeches: "Does Eulalie love Mr. Thorpe very much?"
How I rejoiced when I heard that fiat! for I emerged from that year of study with a heart utterly estranged from the profession in which I had centred my hopes before Yes, Eulalie, you had bid me accomplish myself for the arts of utterance; by the study of arts in which thoughts originate the words they employ; and in doing so I had changed myself into another being.
She would have preferred to make the most of Eulalie, and not to have had the whole of her circle about her at one time. But she dared not send the Cure away, and had to content herself with making a sign to Eulalie not to leave when he did, so that she might have her to herself for a little after he had gone.
And even the little children, awed by his shame, would shrink wide-eyed from his contamination. For the one sin unpardonable, the one foul specter against which range mothers invoke the intercession of their gods, is Cowardice. Douglass, ambling around the hotel veranda with little Eulalie astride of his neck, the next morning, bumped into the tenderfoot who had sat beside him in the Alcazar.
He borrowed a reconn-car from Ravney; he and Lanze Degbrend and, usually, one or another of Ravney's young officers, took long trips of exploration. They fished in mountain streams, and hunted the small deerlike game, and he found himself enjoying these excursions more than anything he had done in recent years; certainly anything since Aditya had come into the viewscreens of the Empress Eulalie.
And the very next Sunday a disclosure by Eulalie like one of those discoveries which suddenly open up an unsuspected field for exploration to some new science which has hitherto followed only the beaten paths proved to my aunt that her own worst suspicions fell a long way short of the appalling truth. "But Francoise ought to know that," said Eulalie, "now that you have given her a carriage."
"I'm sure my question was harmless enough," he mused, half crossly, "She might have answered it." He glanced out impatiently over the Fjord. There was no sign of his returning yacht as yet. "What a time those fellows are!" he said to himself. "If the pilot were not on board, I should begin to think they had run the Eulalie aground."
Dyceworthy. They had had a glorious day's sail, piloted by Valdemar Svensen, whose astonishment at seeing the Gueldmars on board the Eulalie was depicted in his face, but who prudently forebore from making any remarks thereon.
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